Financial Women's Association Committees - Professional Development

Committee - Professional Development

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Mission

The mission of the Professional Development Committee is to provide members with new tools and techniques to enhance professional development and to manage their careers through times of ongoing change.

Upcoming Events

To be announced.

Meeting Schedule

Contact Christine Birnbaum or Shoya Zichy for the more information about the next committee meeting.

Accomplishments/Highlights

Five Sessions featuring 14 nationally recognized speakers contributed to consistently sold-out events.

	Taking Control of Your Career: The New Mindset of the Emerging Era (Nov 2007) Sherry Amanpour - Career Coach and Consultant; Joann S. Lublin - Management News Editor for The Wall Street Journal; Kathryln Wang - Vice President at The Bank of New York Mellon; Kate Wendleton - founder The Five O ’Clock Club.
	Taking Your Leadership Skills to the Next Level (Jan 2008) with Carol Frohlinger - co-founder Negotiating Women and co-author Her Place at the Table; Jane Linder - co-author, Spiral Up; and Stacie Nevadomski Berdan - co-author Get Ahead By Going Abroad.
	FWA Eighth Annual Executive Coaching Summit with four executive coaches (Mar 2008) Lindsey Pollak: Gen Y’s: How You Can Maximize and Fulfill Your Career Goals and Have a Life Barbara Sucoff: Managing Up: How to Successfully Influence and Engage Others to Achieve Your Goals Gail Blanke: Dare to be Different: Designing Your Leadership Signature Amy Dorn Kopelan: Never Abandon Control of Your Career: Strategies and Steps that Really Work
	Career Match: Use Your Personality Code to Find a Life of Career Success (Apr 2008) with Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney – US Congress and Shoya Zichy – author Career Match.
	Career Match: Use Your Personality Code to Find a Life of Career Success (May 2008) with Anne Weisberg – co-author of Mass Career Customization and a director in the Talent organization specializing in inclusion strategies for the Deloitte U.S. Firms.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to our corporate underwriters who provided the venues, support and underwriting: The Bank of New York Mellon, Credit Suisse, KPMG, Deloitte LLP and Merrill Lynch.

We would like to say a special thank you to our valued committee members for their enthusiasm and dedicated support: Barbara Bettman; Peggy Decker; Elaine Hutchinson; Siobhan Kelleher; Loretta Roland; Suzanne Rocheleau.